How Mobile GPS Can Help You Protect Your Drivers And The Bottom Line
As a fleet manager you have probably experienced an afternoon or evening when you were asking, “Truck 27, Where Are You?” You’ll never ask that question again when your trucks are equipped with mobile GPS. This simple device, installed in just seconds, allows a fleet manager to know the exact location, speed, and status of every truck you have on the road (and the ones in the garage).
You will be able to monitor driving habits, routing, vehicle location, and even vehicle and driver safety. Mobile GPS monitoring allows you to do all this and more. You can help your drivers by alerting them when they are slipping into bad or dangerous driving habits. Mobile GPS monitoring can also give you the information you need to help drivers become more fuel-efficient in their driving habits. And you can monitor and take corrective action when drivers are abusing the vehicles, the schedule or the rules.
If you have been trying to figure out why 3 of your box trucks have 50% more miles on them each month than other vehicles traveling essentially the same route, your mobile GPS system will help you prove that these trucks are being used on weekends and after hours to operate a local moving company by a group of your employees, or that some of your employees are intentionally taking “the long way” in order to burn time and rack up overtime, or maybe the driver is just running personal errands during the day.
Or perhaps you think several of the trucks are using too much fuel for the miles they are putting on the odometer. Mobile GPS in the truck would tell you that they are meeting in the parking lot of an empty warehouse for card games every afternoon, leaving the trucks idling so nobody will know.
The information tracked by a mobile GPS system will help you monitor abuses by your drivers or mechanics. You will even know if someone is using vehicles after hours for unauthorized tasks. But there are even more positive results that can be achieved with a mobile GPS system. Helping drivers identify the shortest or fastest or most economical routes will save time and money for the company. It will also increase productivity. Knowing where your drivers are, and if they are on schedule can improve customer service and satisfaction, which will increase sales for the company.
All of the reports and calculations you have to prepare for various other departments, as well as the data you need to manage your fleet will be literally at your fingertips with a mobile GPS system. You will know exactly where every vehicle is at any moment, how fast it is traveling, and when it will reach its destination. With mobile GPS you will be able to provide driver hours and vehicle reports to the finance and payroll departments at the touch of just a few keys. You could probably even free up those Saturday’s you find yourself spending at work to finish the quarterly reports and stay home and play ball with your kids.
Consider, also, this very different benefit of a mobile GPS system in your fleet. At 10 am, you notice that the truck 12 is sitting on the side of the Interstate, but shows no indication of a vehicle problem. You assume the driver has pulled over to check something. You continue to monitor, noting that the truck has not moved at 11:30. You try to call your driver and he does not answer the phone. You continue to monitor and call until noon. By this time, you are concerned. Using your mobile GPS tracking system, you locate a truck returning to the garage that is about 10 miles beyond the location of truck 12. You call the driver and ask her to stop and check on truck 12. You continue to monitor the arrival of truck 16. Within a minute you receive a phone call from the driver of truck 16 informing you that the driver of truck 12 is in bad shape and appears to have suffered a stroke. She has called 911 and will accompany the driver of truck 12 to the hospital and remain there until his family arrives. You then call the driver’s wife, and take a van to deliver another driver to complete the run for truck 12, pick up the driver of truck 16 and take her back to her truck (unless she followed the ambulance with it), and return to the hospital to wait with the driver’s wife. Mobile GPS saves a life and keeps a delivery on schedule.
Mobile GPS in every vehicle in the fleet can save money, save time, increase productivity, reduce fuel usage and carbon emissions, reduce your management time, protect your vehicles, and even save the life of a driver. All things considered, don’t you need mobile GPS for your fleet?
To learn more about mobile GPS, get the free report “7 Ways Your Company Can Save Thousands of Dollars With GPS Fleet Tracking.” Many companies have substantially boosted their revenue and lowered their costs by implementing GPS vehicle tracking for their fleet. To calculate the ROI for your company in under 30 seconds, click through to the vehicle GPS ROI calculator.
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